Reunited Immigrant Families Face Difficult Choice to Split Again
- Agreement lets parents decide whether kids stay in detention
- Trump administration is racing to reunite detained migrants
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Escaping gruesome violence at the hands of police and gangs in Honduras, a mother and her daughter arrived in the U.S. on June 8 near McAllen, Texas, and turned themselves in to federal agents. They were then separated and held in custody 1,555 miles apart, according to court filings.
The 12-year-old daughter is now among a couple thousand migrant children that the U.S. is working to reunite with parents over the next two weeks following a federal judge’s order last month.